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‘Healing Can Begin with a Handshake’: Inside Sydney’s Only Aboriginal-Run Drug and Alcohol Counselling Centre

By James Button — 2021

Twenty-seven years ago Hunter and his partner, Melinda Bonham, were sitting on the porch of their house in Shalvey, a suburb of Blacktown, when Hunter fell silent, lost in thought. It was 1994, and the local Aboriginal community had endured a long cycle of drug and alcohol addiction, trauma and premature death. After a while, Hunter spoke: “I’ve gotta do something to help my people.” Marrin Weejali Aboriginal Corporation was born out of that thought.

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